Updated: 2012-10-20 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 176 Issue 3 SPARC Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Maximizing Your SPARC T4 Oracle Solaris Application Performance' Solaris Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC Sun Tape OpenStorage Top10 Service Performance Sysadmin Java Technology Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Talk by Darryl Gove at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 October 20, 2012, Volume 176, Issue 3 The slide set for Darryl Gove's talk Maximizing Your SPARC T4 Oracle Solaris Application , Performance which he delivered at Oracle OpenWorld is now available to download . His presentation addresses four topics : hardware , correctness , performance , and parallelism , and he concludes
Updated: 2012-10-18 15:00:00
Two new videos on the Oracle Learning Youtube channel cover the provisioning capabilities of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c, Owen Allen reports. Both presentations are by Simon Hayler. According to Allen the first video shows how to provision Oracle Solaris zones, explaining how to create an Oracle Solaris Zone profile and then showing how to apply it (using a deployment plan) to a target system. The second video shows how to provision an x86 server with Oracle Solaris using a very similar process: you create an OS provisioning profile, then use a deployment plan to apply it to the target hardware.
Updated: 2012-10-18 15:00:00
The October 2012 issue of Oracle's Database Insider Newsletter is now available. Contents include the following news articles:
"Newly Launched Oracle Exadata X3 Redefines Extreme Performance"
"Oracle OpenWorld Revelations Top Agendas at Regional User Group Meetings"
"FAQ: Label-Based Access Controls in Oracle Database 11g"
The issue also includes links to a video feature on analyzing big data, as well as links to a variety of webcasts and podcasts, news from the Oracle Database 11g Resource Center, reader responses, and a calendar of events.
Updated: 2012-10-15 15:00:00
It has been 20 years since the introduction of Solaris 2.0, Larry Wake observes, and in this anniversary year, Oracle announces Solaris 11.1, with new provisioning and update capabilities: the integration of Oracle ZFS, Zones, and IPS -- the new network repository and update system. olaris 11.1 is designed to tie in to Oracle Solaris and the Oracle stack and to all the third party software, and SPARC and x86 hardware that's supported on Solaris. New features also include integrated network virtualization and the connected cloud management feature.
Updated: 2012-10-12 15:00:00
Host Roger Brinkley devotes Episode 103 of the Java Spotlight to his annual interviews with the 2012 Duke Choice Award Winners. The Java Spotlight web site features a slide presentation that provides brief profiles of each winner, all of whom were announced at JavaOne 2012 held recently in San Francisco. More detailed information on the winners is available in the press release on oracle.com.
Updated: 2012-10-12 15:00:00
The JavaFX Community now has its own site, which is an aggregator of JavaFX information, where users can find links to JavaFX blog posts, tweets, and other resources, Tori Weildt posts, adding that Gerrit Grunwald and Jim Weaver are the community leaders for this site, who welcome feedback on how to make the JavaFX Community site more useful to its growing community.
Updated: 2012-10-11 15:00:00
The September/October 2012 edition of "Security Inside Out Newsletter" includes information on Oracle OpenWorld and the database security sessions held there; hands-on labs; label-based access controls in Oracle Database 11g; Privileged Account Manager; webcasts on database security and identity management; links to podcasts and videos; and more, blogger Troy Kitch announces. Kitch provides a link to the current issue and to the subscription sign-up page.
Updated: 2012-10-11 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 176 Issue 2 Java Technology Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Updates Information on Java EE 7 at JavaOne 2012 MySQL Linux Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC Top10 Free and Open Source S W Java Technology JavaFX Security Trademarks Previous Next Expected in Q213, Release Will Accommodate Many Developer Requests October 11, 2012, Volume 176, Issue 2 News about Java EE 7, discussed at JavaOne 2012, revealed that plans for the release , expected in Q213, include new features that will help facilitate building scalable HTML5 applications , including support for non-blocking event-driven I O Servlet 3.1 API , JCache , JSON-P ,
Updated: 2012-10-11 15:00:00
This year's Duke Award winners, announced at JavaOne 2012, include the following:
Apache Software Foundation Hadoop Project
AgroSense Project
JDuchess
Jelastic, Inc.
Liquid Robotics
London Java Community
NATO
Parleys.com
Student Nokia Developer Group - This year's student winner: Ram Kashyap
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Read on for details ...
Updated: 2012-10-11 15:00:00
If you'd like to review some of the Oracle Linux events from Oracle OpenWorld 2012, or if you did not attend the event, here's the next best thing: A wrap-up of the chief events of OpenWorld, ranging from a catalog of Oracle OpenWorld content to Edward Screven's keynote; the interview with Wim Coekaerts ... the list goes on. The links are to videos of the talks and presentations.
Updated: 2012-10-11 15:00:00
"Out-of-the-box settings and weak configuration of databases make it easier for thieves to break into data stores and harder for IT to quickly detect breaches ...
Even as enterprises spend buckets of cash on data defenses at various layers of IT infrastructure, many of them sabotage their efforts by ultimately storing that information in poorly configured databases. Whether due to legacy application logistics, convenience to administrators, or lack of awareness by DBAs, databases set up with out-of-the-box settings are all-too-common within the enterprise..."
Updated: 2012-10-11 15:00:00
"Commercial espionage. Compliance. Crazy weather. Credit default swaps. Risk is everywhere and if you're just trying to minimize it within IT, you're missing the point.
Instead, learn to be a "risk intelligent" CIO who can help your organization wisely take--and profit from--risks..."
Updated: 2012-10-11 15:00:00
At the recent Oracle Open World 2012, the company introduced its "Zero to Cloud" resource center to help organizations deploy fully operational, enterprise-grade private cloud environments in as little as half a day, accelerating the journey to the enterprise private cloud. The online "Zero to Cloud" resource center includes best practices from Oracle experts and early adopter customers as well as interviews with Oracle development executives responsible for Oracle's private cloud solutions and roadmap. It also includes a new self-assessment quiz that can help determine readiness for a successful private cloud deployment.
Updated: 2012-10-08 15:00:00
"After augmented reality became over-hyped about two years ago, interest waned a bit, but recently the idea seems to have gathered traction again. Google's Project Glass, a head-mounted display that started to be tested earlier this year, gave the concept a big boost, according to Martin Herdina, CEO at augmented reality vendor Wikitude..."
Updated: 2012-10-08 15:00:00
"I'd like to spend the next few columns talking about which of the various technologies addresses the different issues impacting application performance over the WAN, and which technologies address which issues best. We'll cover not just the "biggest, baddest" newer networking technologies - WAN Optimization, WAN Virtualization and Network-as-a-Service ..."
Updated: 2012-10-08 15:00:00
"To address numerous problems stemming from paper-based governance processes, BNY Mellon has embraced a cross-functional Information Lifecycle Governance program. Here's how the initiative is transforming the institution's legal, records and IT practices to improve information economics while reducing risk..."
